How do you dispose of used cooking oil?

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• Actually, if you mix in a tablespoon of dishwashing liquid per quart of oil, it breaks down the oil so it won't clog the sink.

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  by Anonymous on March 3rd, 2008

• I don't believe that and wouldn't want to experiment on MY sink. Dishwashing liquid is a detergent and a detergent just hooks molecules of oil to molecules of water. One tablespoon seems like way the heck too little to dispose of a whole quart. If it worked, restaurants might do it--but they don't.
  
  Unless you can make a deal with a local fast-food restaurant, which recycles it, I'd say to let it cool, pour it in a jar, close the jar and thus dispose of it.
  
  I personally just keep frying with it till it's gone.

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  by Roger Kovaciny on March 3rd, 2008

• Your suggestions are not an option here. I don't have any such container, nor do I have access to one. I don't buy my food that way.

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  by Anonymous on March 3rd, 2008

• Composting definitely seems to be the way to go, untill now i have been making firelighters with tissue or news paper, soak it up make it into a ball keep them in the Chiminea in a plastic bag to keep them dry but accumulating more than we use so great to know its compostable.
  
  Dose than include non vegetable fat?

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  by brendan.conyard on May 16th, 2011